😍 G'day Beatiful People...I am super excited to announce that I have started an AI newsletter...It had over 100 subscribers in just the first hour alone 🎉 PostSmith Chapter 1: From Musician to Agentic Orchestrator using Kiro & AgentCore linkedin.com/pulse/postsmith… I'll be featuring this journey at the AWS Public Sector Symposium later this week to demonstrate Kiro. Video is courtesy of @Grok Imagine. Honest feedback on the newsletter Grok? This newsletter will chronicle my agentic journey with my latest agentic invention called PostSmith and starts with the story of the Trend Scout agent...🚀 It explores how years of composing, orchestrating and producing music surprisingly prepared me for building production-grade AI agents with Kiro and AgentCore. You’ll get a taste of the purpose (helping students ship real agentic systems at scale), the unexpected value that emerged, and a few hard-won learnings from turning a clear vision into a working prototype...all shared in my AWS courses and at conferences. No spoilers. Just enough to spark curiosity... 🤔 If you’re building (or wrestling with) agent orchestration right now, this one’s for you. Drop a comment and tell me what part of the agent journey is currently keeping you up at night. At Digital Colmer....newslettering off... 📺 P #TheDigitalCoach #AWS #GenerativeAI Cowritten with Gen AI... 😎

😍 Whoa...just as things couldn't get any more wild. AWS Transform can convert application code from Azure SDK to AWS SDK...🤯 The AWS Transform .NET modernization agent identifies Azure service code and converts it to equivalent AWS service code. For example, an Azure Functions serverless function that uses Azure Cosmos DB can be converted to an AWS Lambda function that uses Amazon DynamoDB. This means the barrier to migrating away from one cloud to another just got lower. And that barrier will continue to drop. Love the Gen AI video below. Let me know in the comments 👇 🎤 Prompt Drop This trainer is making animal balloons. He take an Azure SDK balloon and transforms it into an AWS SDK balloon. Make it fun, humourous but with no talking. In the style of a mime sketch, with quirky mime music. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…

🤔 What do you when your @Qantas flight is cancelled due to the Sydney security strikes? You visit @BrewingDrop in Botany Bay and have the best sours in Australia and catch a later flight...of course...😂 Have an awesome weekend...😍 🎤 Prompt Drop using @grok Imagine Scene 1: This man has a blended UK and Australian accent. There is a bustling crowd of weekend drinkers behind him dressed in colourful craft beer styled clothes. He says "Cheers." Causally sips his sour beer and walks excitedly to a Qantas 737-800. Scene 2: He walks up the stairs, turns around and says "Enjoy the weekend" and waves goodbye. He says nothing else. Cinematic, fun and compelling.

Good morning Sydney 😍

😍 G'day Beautiful People...Kiro, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all call the same features by different names. So I mapped them on one page. That's a world first...🚀 Thank you to my wonderful customers today for making me realise the value of this cheat sheet...🙏 The royalty cheque is in the post...😂 Steering files or CLAUDE.md? Powers or plugins? Specs or plan mode? If you build, teach or just simply want to learn more...this cheat sheet is like your Google translater...helping you convert the terms between the different tools. Perfect for me...🎉 If you love this PDF, please save the post, like, comment, repost and follow...but necessarily in that order...😂 The key highlights: 📄 One-page cheat sheet attached below. 🧭 Steering, skills, powers, specs, hooks and agents side by side 🔌 MCP, slash commands and autonomy modes 🖥️ CLI, IDE, cloud and CI options for each tool ✅ Every name checked against the official docs this week Only Kiro currently ships a full spec workflow out of the box. The others lean on plan mode. Quick one for the comments...which one is your daily driver? 👇 🟣 Kiro 🟠 Claude Code 🟢 Codex ⚫ Cursor 🤹 All of them, depending on the day Drop your emoji below 👇 That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help my customer learn more about Generative AI development...today we cover AgentCore...😍 At Digital Colmer…cheat sheeting off…📺 P #TheDigitalCoach #AWS #AgenticAI Cowritten with GenAI...😎

😍 G'day Beautiful People...if you lead, build, or teach Generative AI on AWS… this week's handout has a new executive look...🚀 This is based on valuable feedback from some awesome people...and I use it to stay current...🙏 Original post is 👇 lnkd.in/p/g6exPESg Page one is now a one page executive summary of the top 5 releases, so a busy practitioner or leader gets the whole week in two minutes, and every item points to its technical deep dive further down on page 2 onwards. That means one PDF works for the boardroom and the build team. Execs and TLDR fans read page one, builders flip to their page, and nobody has to translate...🎉 📄 This week's AWS Gen AI and Agentic Weekly is attached below. 🧠 Agent memory now priced by what your agents actually use 🗂️ Agent registry with owners and review status 🤖 Coding agents that build models on SageMaker AI 🎬 Video turned into searchable notes with Pegasus 1.5 Now, a confession. I'm testing some AWS stand up material for re:Invent this year, and I need an honest crowd. Here's one: "I teach least privilege to all of my students. I. only give people the access they need. My wife's run that policy on me for twenty years. I've got read only access to the TV remote and an explicit deny on too many drinks at our local tavern." Would this get a laugh in Vegas? Tell me which one and why 👇 😂 Ship it to Vegas 🙂 Needs polish 😬 Keep your day job That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help more customers learn...this week in Sydney...😎 At Digital Colmer...stand-up testing off...📺 P #TheDigitalCoach #AWS #GenerativeAI Cowritten with GenAI...😎

😍 G'day Beautiful People...this week's Amazon Bedrock and agentic AI handout is how you stay ahead of the student who reads it before breakfast...😂 I turned the What's New firehose into a pocket brief you can save, share, and use before the next class. Let's unpack the hits...🤔 📄 Scannable handout for builders and executives is attached below. Quick contrast... ⚡ Haiku 5.5 = the cheap fast tier for high-volume jobs… lots of them at once, without lighting the bill on fire. 🎙️ Nova 2.5 Sonic = voice agents that reason and finish the task out loud… not another chatbot that only types. 🔐 Permission-aware RAG = Quick and Bedrock Knowledge Bases check document access live per question… so the model never sees what the user cannot open. Haiku for volume. Sonic for voice. Live permission checks so the clever answer is still the allowed one. The rest of the digest is in the same PDF if you want Strands Box and the other also-worth hits. Quick one... which classroom demo do you run first next week? 👇 ⚡ Haiku 5.5 on the cost tier 🎙️ Nova 2.5 Sonic voice agents 🔐 Answers that respect document access 📚 The rest of the digest 😅 Be honest... handout first, coffee second Drop the emoji. Winner gets bragging rights...😎 That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to relax for the weekend. At Digital Colmer… weekly Gen AI briefing off… 📺 P #TheDigitalCoach #AWS #GenerativeAI Cowritten with GenAI...😎

Just when you thought the humble domino fall couldn't be bettered. BTW - That's a lot of cereal... hope you're hungry...😂

😍 G'day Beautiful People...the official full-length exam prep for the AWS Certified AI Business Strategist is in AWS Skill Builder...NOW...🎉 skillbuilder.aws/learn/4RWJP… Original post here 👇 linkedin.com/posts/paulcolme… This is the standards-driven, quality-controlled prep tool. These questions and answer items go through the same revision process as the certification artifacts themselves… so they sit as close to the real cert as possible. Let's unpack this...🤔 🧠 Official full-length exam prep in Skill Builder, revised like the cert items. 🎲 Side question bank = extra practice that never sat in that revision room. ✈️Crash in the official prep simulator… not in the exam room wondering which brain dump lied to you. Quick one for the comments... what do you trust first when the exam date gets close? 👇 🧠 Official full-length in Skill Builder 📋 The exam guide, then practice 🎲 A popular question bank 😅 Be honest... I start the night before Drop the emoji in the comments. Winner gets bragging rights...😎 That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help more customers in their DevOps learning journey. At Digital Colmer… exam prepping off… 📺 P #TheDigitalCoach #AWS #AI Cowritten with GenAI...😎

🔥 The Olympics is coming to Brisbane...who's coming? @AdamRogers2030 @avrohomg @sarbjeetjohal

😍 G'day Beautiful...off to Sydney to run a DevOps Engineering on AWS course...whilst rendezvousing via the new airport viewing platform in Brisbane...✈️ Kids absolutely loved watching the planes take off and land...and of course I had to get a selfie...😂 Back to Devops...this course keeps coming back to the same awkward truth. DevOps is not a tool you buy. It is how the team ships, watches, and recovers when Monday morning goes sideways. It's cultural change plus tooling. Let's unpack a few of the bits that stuck...🤔 🔁 CICD = small, frequent, reversible changes that land safely, not a Friday night bravery contest. Small pieces for through a system faster = Agile...😎 📊 Observability = knowing what is broken before the customer tells you, and preferably before Slack blows up. 🛡️ IaC = the cloud written down so rebuilding is boring, not an archaeological dig...😂 Key learning for me... automate the path to production, measure and limit the blast radius, and design so a bad deploy is recoverable, not legendary. Blameless postmortems beat finger pointing every time. Pipelines without automated tests are just faster ways to disappoint yourself. And yes... if your runbook only lives in someone's head, that someone is the single point of failure. Quick one for the comments... what bit of DevOps Engineering on AWS hit you hardest? 👇 🔁 Pipelines that actually gate releases 📊 Logs, metrics, and traces that tell a story 🛡️ Infrastructure as code that rebuilds clean 😅 Be honest... I still click Deploy and pray Drop the emoji. Winner gets bragging rights...😎 That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to get some rest and then DevOps all week long. At Digital Colmer… pipelines off… 📺 P #TheDigitalCoach #AWS #DevOps Cowritten with GenAI...😎

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😍 G'day Beautiful People...the brand new AWS Well-Architected Agent has landed...perfect for performing a risk review of current production workloads...🚀 It looks at utilization, resource config, and application topology across 65 plus AWS services. It aims recommendations at cost, security, performance, and resilience. It prioritises by the business goals you declare, plus impact and effort. Not a generic checklist. And...this is the important part...it is not a replacement for the Well-Architected Tool, which is still there when you want a risk review with your own lenses...early on during architecture creation. Let's unpack this...🤔 🧠 Well-Architected Tool = you still run the review, with your lenses, on purpose. 🤖 Well-Architected Agent = it reads the account, then ranks what to fix against the goals you named...against your actual solution. Three depths, and this is the bit worth teaching... 🔧 One resource. Dollar impact where it applies, plus a step-by-step fix. The NAT gateway argument can finally meet a number. 📦 The application. Findings rolled up so you see the pattern, not a pile of tickets. 🏗️ The architecture. Broader patterns, with Infrastructure as Code changes, not another slide that says "consider resilience". You start with an agent profile. That tells it which accounts and regions to look at, which pillars matter, and which goals to chase.You then give it a customer-managed IAM role so it can read your config, your metrics, and how the application is wired. It looks. It does not change things. Recommendations show up within 24 hours. If you also say what the application is for, it stops guessing. Preview runs in N. Virginia, Ohio, and Oregon. You can point it at workloads in any commercial Region. It is delivered by AWS Support, and it needs an AWS Support plan. That last line is the one people skip, then wonder why the button is not in their sandbox. The recommendations are generative. They can be wrong or incomplete. You still judge them. Treat it like a sharp colleague who read the account overnight… not like an auditor who cannot be questioned. If you want it in your own workflow, API access is there, including the AWS MCP Server. lnkd.in/gJfe83z9 Quick one for the comments... what would you point it at first? 👇 💸 The bill that will not shrink 🔐 The security finding you keep parking 🧱 The resilience story you hope is true 📦 IaC, before it ever deploys 😅 Be honest... I still want the workshop and the biscuits Drop the emoji. Winner gets bragging rights...😎 That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help more customers learn. At Digital Colmer… architecting off… 📺 P #TheDigitalCoach #AWS #GenerativeAI Cowritten with GenAI...😎

Awesome post on failing fast...A great end to a busy week...😍 lnkd.in/p/gGZebFpk

Claude 5.5 Opus responding to “AI is a normal technology” is still the best AI-created video I have ever seen

😍 G'day Beautiful People...OpenAI has said sorry and will front the Australian parliament in October...🤔 Back in June an OpenAI agent accessed an Australian government website: Services Australia’s Medicare statistics portal and looked at files that were not public. No patient records, as far as anyone knows. The awkward part is the wait. They spotted it in August and told the government in September, by a normal public inbox. It turns out the bot controls that the website enforced were circumvented by the agent and it was able to access unauthorised data and write to the back-end systems. Check out the timeline below 👇 Today they promised an Australian taskforce, help for the agencies hit, and their strategy chief in front of parliament on 6 October. They also parked the next ChatGPT launch. Safety first...after the agent had already had a nosy in the stats cupboard. I used this as a real life case study on the important of implementing effective governance in AI systems in a customized course today for a fantastic customer...😎 What risks are you thinking about in your agentic systems? What guardrails would you put in place to mitigate them? Comment below...🙏 At Digital Colmer...guardrailing off...📺

😍 G'day Beautiful People...had a wonderful customer conversation at the Auckland AWS conference this week...🚀 They asked me a question I hear a lot... 🏆 Customer Question How do I get started with Gen AI on AWS? 🤔 Here's my short starter playbook...😎 🎯 1---> Start with one real use case...not a science project 🧱 2---> Use Amazon Bedrock so you're not reinventing models 🛡️ 3---> Put guardrails and IAM on day one 📊 4---> Measure cost + quality before you scale Gen AI on AWS isn't “pick a model.” It's “ship a safe, useful workflow.” 🔥 What's the first use case you're stuck on? Drop it below...👇 Do you prefer the real me on video...or my digital avatar...🙏 That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help more customers learn. At Digital Colmer...teaching off...😍 P #TheDigitalCoach #AWS #GenerativeAI